{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-fund-holding-practices-scotland-regulations-1993/regulation-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-fund-holding-practices-scotland-regulations-1993/regulation-20.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/488",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Fund-Holding Practices) (Scotland) Regulations 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-fund-holding-practices-scotland-regulations-1993",
  "path": "regulation/20",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Savings from the allotted sum",
  "text": "Where the accounts relating to the allotted sum paid to members of a fund-holding practice in respect of a financial year have been audited in accordance with section 86(1A) of the Act, the members of the fund-holding practice may continue to apply any part of the allotted sum paid to them in respect of that financial year, for a period of four years after the end thereof, for one or more of the following:—\n(a) the purposes specified in regulations 16, 17, 18 and 19,\n(b) the purchase of material or equipment which—\n(i) can be used for the treatment of patients of the practice; or\n(ii) enhances the comfort or convenience of patients of the practice; or\n(iii) enables the practice to be managed more effectively and efficiently; or\n(iv) relates to health education; or\n(c) the improvement of any premises from which the members of the practice carry on their practice whether by improving the structure of the premises or the purchase of furniture and furnishings for the premises.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 86(1A) was inserted by the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990, section 36(4)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1996/748",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Fund-Holding Practices) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1996"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1996/748",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Fund-Holding Practices) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1996"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1995/1571",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Fund-Holding Practices) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1995"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1993/1369",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Fund-Holding Practices) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1993"
    },
    {
      "type": "renumbered",
      "affecting": "uksi/1993/1369",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Fund-Holding Practices) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1993"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/488/regulation/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:03:33.737924+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}